Contributing to the discussion, I recently bought an OCZ SSD 60GB Agility 3. Aware that an SSD does not give guarantees about data integrity, I use it only as HD operating system, and it fulfills this task well. And if it fails is less bad to reinstall the operating system than losing my data. (my data is in a conventional HD).
But so far had no problems with it (installed on an Intel ICH10R controller in RAID mode, the SSD itself is not part of a RAID volume) SATA2 mode. I'm just a little disappointed with the fact that the performance for data not compressible is much worse than stated by the manufacturer.
Well, to understand you need to put down the reality distortion googles® and do a reality check. Oh, Wait! You are a north-american? Well... Sorry, good luck for you.
Because robots are limited. With current technology, they can not overcome obstacles that any ordinary person could. Imagine the Spirit rover climbing an irregular stone stairs or a steep rock. A robot may not have decision-making capacity to protect himself against unforeseen risks in time, nor do they have in particular the ability to improvise of the human being, which is vital in a new and hostile environment.
And finally, we cannot fully learn how to leave our home (the Earth) to colonize new worlds only sending robots.
Of course, one could invest more money to make robots more capable, but the U.S. government prefers to fill the belly of the bankers than investing in exploring space.
I'm from Brazil, and here we use regularly gasoline with 25% alcohol. But notice that you can not use this mixture in a car prepared to use only gasoline, the engine will actually start to fail. The mix works, but the car's engine needs to be adjusted to work properly (setting, hose, compression ratio, etc.)
And was there ever quality in the Linux desktop? I've never seen. Whenever I complained of some functionality missing or defective, someone replied with a tone of fanatic "but it's free and so is better than Windows !!!!"
It's the same thing in Brazil. Here is given much more importance to certificates than actual experience. But here is expected because the bureaucracy is absurd in many aspects of Brazil society and bureaucracy only knows papers
Wrong. The goal of the TFA author is simply whether he is entering a potentially dangerous area or if an object is radioactive. He does not need be an expert on the subject to know that if the geiger starts beeping, is because something in place is radioactive enough for him to have to avoid.
Wrong. As i say on another comment, humans have problems to understand things without going to extremes.
"Ready to play" means a character who can at least run when he finds something he can not deal with, rather than being killed immediately by stepping outside the "security zone" or find a jerk. But I see that your definition of "ready to play" is "ready to spend days collecting money to buy a half-assed sword and thinking this is fun" Excuse me, but I are unable to consider this fun.
"I defy you to name a single MMO where a starting character can in any reasonable sense be said not to be "ready to play"."
Easy, since you do not understand in what sense I said "ready to play". Create an account on WOW (the first game that came to mind), and with your fresh character try to visit the various places of the game. Ah yes, without being "killed"in the process and without spending a long time first trying to raise money enought to buy armor and weapons that are good enough for you not to be killed in the first foot outside "safe" spawn area... Now understood in the sense that I said "ready to play"?
Wrong. I think that online games are a waste of time. And why? Because on almost mmorpgs you do not get a game character "ready to play", you need to "upgrade" him with "game money", itens, etc. And this cost time. And when you finaly have a good character, good enought to visit the many (and maybe dangerous) places on the game world, you lost then to a server crash, some jerk player, need to disconnect to save your real-life lunch from burn or etc. And then need to do all again from starting point. I don't think this is "fun"....
Ahhh... Now you have a name. Well, you forgot the part "virtual life". You do not just spend money on an MMO, you also spend time. You can even play without need to spend money on virtual objects/aids and therefore do not lose it if the server is shut down forever, but you can not play without spending time. His months of effort making an initial expressionless character into something powerfull? Lost forever at the push of a button. Starting to see my point?
"This problem has long since been solved by MMO's. Sidekick systems, content level-scaling, etc."
Oh, really? Says that to the many MMOs around here that do not have features like as you say. And even worse, none of mechanism you mentioned is capable of preventing a year-long effort by the player to be lost forever because the server administrator has decided to shut it down permanently.
In conclusion, my solution? is to stay away from online games (no big deal, most other players are jerks that do not add anything good to the game, I quit minecraft multiplayer because of griefers).
What is more "stupid"... My comment or the whole idea of buying virtual objects with real money to live a virtual life, and where it all might end up with a simple push of a button by the server administrator? Well, you can have a real life so miserable that it is better to live in virtual form, but that does not give you the right to arrogantly say that anyone who thinks otherwise is... "stupid. "
puny humans, so difficult to understand without taking things to extremes...
I know perfectly well that to play a MORPG, you need a server. What I said is that it is not a good idea to buy a game that next week may no longer work because the company that keeps running the server decided to shut it down for not giving the desired profit (and is just one of many possible scenarios) . If you know of that risk and do not mind it's alright, it's your money and your time, not mine.
But, there is a huge difference between a hobby where you can spend time as you can when you can, and a MORPG where if you want to have a decent "avatar" you need to play for - literally - days and weeks, and if you leave it aside for a few days you risk being left behind. That is the biggest problem I see in an online game, you can not leave at any time to attend to something else.
You do not understand me... What I mean is it a bad idea to buy games that rely on online servers because the server sooner or later will be turned off and you can not play anymore. Especially when the server is controlled by the company that created the game (ie, you can not create your own server in order to continue playing).
Now personally I do not really like MORPGs and derivatives, I'm too busy with my real life to be caring for a "virtual life". Especially when the other players in their vast majority are just jerks. As more recent example, see the multiplayer version of Minecraft.
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Contributing to the discussion, I recently bought an OCZ SSD 60GB Agility 3. Aware that an SSD does not give guarantees about data integrity, I use it only as HD operating system, and it fulfills this task well. And if it fails is less bad to reinstall the operating system than losing my data. (my data is in a conventional HD).
But so far had no problems with it (installed on an Intel ICH10R controller in RAID mode, the SSD itself is not part of a RAID volume) SATA2 mode. I'm just a little disappointed with the fact that the performance for data not compressible is much worse than stated by the manufacturer.
Crysis in a 360 "monitor"? Wow...
Well, to understand you need to put down the reality distortion googles® and do a reality check. Oh, Wait! You are a north-american? Well... Sorry, good luck for you.
I wish I had mod points. Because the above is the best comment I saw on the question.
Because robots are limited. With current technology, they can not overcome obstacles that any ordinary person could. Imagine the Spirit rover climbing an irregular stone stairs or a steep rock. A robot may not have decision-making capacity to protect himself against unforeseen risks in time, nor do they have in particular the ability to improvise of the human being, which is vital in a new and hostile environment. And finally, we cannot fully learn how to leave our home (the Earth) to colonize new worlds only sending robots. Of course, one could invest more money to make robots more capable, but the U.S. government prefers to fill the belly of the bankers than investing in exploring space.
Shhhh... The north-american people do not like the truth. She is too ugly.
This one made my day, thanks :)
We spend more in cooling air than exploring outer space ... Well done, humanity ... /ironic
I'm from Brazil, and here we use regularly gasoline with 25% alcohol. But notice that you can not use this mixture in a car prepared to use only gasoline, the engine will actually start to fail. The mix works, but the car's engine needs to be adjusted to work properly (setting, hose, compression ratio, etc.)
And was there ever quality in the Linux desktop? I've never seen. Whenever I complained of some functionality missing or defective, someone replied with a tone of fanatic "but it's free and so is better than Windows !!!!"
It's the same thing in Brazil. Here is given much more importance to certificates than actual experience. But here is expected because the bureaucracy is absurd in many aspects of Brazil society and bureaucracy only knows papers
LOL!
Thanks, you almost made me overthrow my coffee from laughing :)
Wrong. The goal of the TFA author is simply whether he is entering a potentially dangerous area or if an object is radioactive. He does not need be an expert on the subject to know that if the geiger starts beeping, is because something in place is radioactive enough for him to have to avoid.
Another interpreted, garbage-collected, slow as hell but easy to use than evil C language... When this madness will end?
So fucking true...
Wrong. As i say on another comment, humans have problems to understand things without going to extremes.
"Ready to play" means a character who can at least run when he finds something he can not deal with, rather than being killed immediately by stepping outside the "security zone" or find a jerk. But I see that your definition of "ready to play" is "ready to spend days collecting money to buy a half-assed sword and thinking this is fun" Excuse me, but I are unable to consider this fun.
"I defy you to name a single MMO where a starting character can in any reasonable sense be said not to be "ready to play"."
Easy, since you do not understand in what sense I said "ready to play". Create an account on WOW (the first game that came to mind), and with your fresh character try to visit the various places of the game. Ah yes, without being "killed"in the process and without spending a long time first trying to raise money enought to buy armor and weapons that are good enough for you not to be killed in the first foot outside "safe" spawn area... Now understood in the sense that I said "ready to play"?
Wrong. I think that online games are a waste of time. And why? Because on almost mmorpgs you do not get a game character "ready to play", you need to "upgrade" him with "game money", itens, etc. And this cost time. And when you finaly have a good character, good enought to visit the many (and maybe dangerous) places on the game world, you lost then to a server crash, some jerk player, need to disconnect to save your real-life lunch from burn or etc. And then need to do all again from starting point. I don't think this is "fun"....
Ahhh... Now you have a name. Well, you forgot the part "virtual life". You do not just spend money on an MMO, you also spend time. You can even play without need to spend money on virtual objects/aids and therefore do not lose it if the server is shut down forever, but you can not play without spending time. His months of effort making an initial expressionless character into something powerfull? Lost forever at the push of a button. Starting to see my point?
"This problem has long since been solved by MMO's. Sidekick systems, content level-scaling, etc."
Oh, really? Says that to the many MMOs around here that do not have features like as you say. And even worse, none of mechanism you mentioned is capable of preventing a year-long effort by the player to be lost forever because the server administrator has decided to shut it down permanently.
In conclusion, my solution? is to stay away from online games (no big deal, most other players are jerks that do not add anything good to the game, I quit minecraft multiplayer because of griefers).
What is more "stupid" ... My comment or the whole idea of buying virtual objects with real money to live a virtual life, and where it all might end up with a simple push of a button by the server administrator? Well, you can have a real life so miserable that it is better to live in virtual form, but that does not give you the right to arrogantly say that anyone who thinks otherwise is ... "stupid. "
puny humans, so difficult to understand without taking things to extremes ...
I know perfectly well that to play a MORPG, you need a server. What I said is that it is not a good idea to buy a game that next week may no longer work because the company that keeps running the server decided to shut it down for not giving the desired profit (and is just one of many possible scenarios) . If you know of that risk and do not mind it's alright, it's your money and your time, not mine. But, there is a huge difference between a hobby where you can spend time as you can when you can, and a MORPG where if you want to have a decent "avatar" you need to play for - literally - days and weeks, and if you leave it aside for a few days you risk being left behind. That is the biggest problem I see in an online game, you can not leave at any time to attend to something else.
You do not understand me ... What I mean is it a bad idea to buy games that rely on online servers because the server sooner or later will be turned off and you can not play anymore. Especially when the server is controlled by the company that created the game (ie, you can not create your own server in order to continue playing).
Now personally I do not really like MORPGs and derivatives, I'm too busy with my real life to be caring for a "virtual life". Especially when the other players in their vast majority are just jerks. As more recent example, see the multiplayer version of Minecraft.
Simply... wow